Happy Birthday Katlyn, and other stuff...

Look at that CUTE puppins!!! think she was having as much fun as the girls were??

well, here I am again, trying to recoop from surgery - this time was a hernia repair - cut me WIDE open, pushed my guts back into place and then and installed some mesh thing... and they removed a left behind fallopian tube (don't ask cause I don't yet understand WHY it was left there... ) I'm healing well this time, which I am grateful for, but I am just not feeling so great - to which I attribute the crohn's flare I am STILL in. BAH.

But in the meantime, life has gone on... here is a funny video of the girls torturing Sophie in their boredome while I was in the hospital...

And then yesterday was Katlyn's 14th (what? how the HECK did THAT happen????) and some of the shoes and clothes she got...

Shoes from Grandmama

One of the new outfits from mommy and daddy

And then some of the ways they amused themselves while I was in the hospital... puzzles, dressing up the dog - you know, the usual.... (thanks Auntie M for the puzzle, the christmas one is almost done now too!)

But let me reflect a bit...

10 years ago I had just moved to Arizona, and Katlyn was having her birthday, we got her a Pooh bear memory game, and got a little pooh bear cake and put some balloons all around my tiny apartment. It was very fun. And I've spent every birthday with her since. So how did my tiny little baby Katlyn become this young woman, this smart, caring, thoughtful, spiritual, lovely young lady? I am not sure... did I blink? did I miss something? But if you ask me about that little four year old, I could swear she is just in the next room, but instead is this lovely, long legged, beautiful 14 year old sweetheart and I just feel blessed to have been able to be apart of who she is today. As much as it hurts my heart a little to know that the four year old is gone and she'll never be back, I am ever happier to have this lovely fourteen year old creature in my life, and know that we'll have lots more birthdays together. I am so grateful for each that we have shared and look forward to all the ones we have in the future. I love you Katlyn - Happy Birthday my sweet daughter!